Improvement in portable stalls for horses



1. w ADAMS. Portable Stalls for Horses.

Patented Nov. 4, 1873.

i No. 144,304

UNITED STATES PATENT DFFIGE.

JOHN ll. ADAMS, OF ROOKVILLE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE STALLS FOR HORSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,304, dated November 4,1873 application filed September 27, 1873.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN W. ADAMS, of Rockville', Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Portable Stable-Stalls, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is anend view of same; Fig.3, details referred to.

My invention relates to portable stalls for horses; and consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts of a stall so as to enable a person to take it down, remove it, and put it up quickly and at little cost.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out.

A and B are double upright beams secured together by cross-bars d, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The short beam B is attached to the trough or manger E by suitable bolts through the hole 12. The double beam A is attached to a joist, F, of a stable by a bolt through the hole a in the long arm of the beam, and. at a proper distance to admit between the beams the boards 0 C G. The lower board 0 is notched at 0 c, and the notches fit snugly or er the cross-bars d d, while the board itself fits between the uprights, forming the double beams, as shown in Fig. 2. The boards 0 and G are placed upon the board 0, and are held in place by the dowel-pins e 0. On the side of the boards 0 and O I secure the catches ff, and through the catches I pass the sliding strip G, the head of which rests against the top board 0, and holds it in position. The strip may be sufficiently long to bedriven a short distance into the earth to steady and secure the stall. When it is desired to place my portable stall in a stable having a floor, it may be held in place' by the piece of board nailed to the floor, and fitting in between the uprights forming the double beams, as at g, Figs. 2 and 3. A stall thus constructed is cheap, easily put up, and readily removed from place to place, as occasion may require.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I A portable stable-stall constructed-as described, and consisting of the double upright beams A and B and the boards 0 O G, with their fastenings, substantially as set forth.

JOHN WV. ADAMS. Witnesses CHRISTIAN STINEHART,

DAVID STRoUsE. 

